scientific audience and has three parts. The first introduces the broad base of carbon compounds in everyday life, including nylon, plastics and so on; the role of fire in carbon cycling; vehicular ...

Born in Laois, Ireland, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick specialises in neuro-orthopaedic veterinary surgery and has developed a range of bioengineering techniques – including stem-cell seeded bone implants ...

Maggots have a bad reputation. Wriggling, amorphous things, they are generally seen as synonymous with decay. However, behind the horror-film images there lurks a biological marvel that has intrigued ...

What is a memory game? Images of everyday objects chosen by bioscience researchers are featured in the game. Test your group's observational skills and short term memory recall, and see how many ...

Writing a Watertight Thesis gave a very thorough overview of the whole PhD progress, rather than commenting solely on the thesis and defence, as I expected from the title. As such, I feel as though ...

Along with the African elephant, leopard, lion and black rhinoceros, the buffalo, Syncerus caffer, makes up one of the ‘big five’ for tourists, so its management is of great economic, ecological and ...

For the last five years Janelle Kaz has combined her love of nature and motorcycles on a two-wheeled intercontinental conservation adventure. She gives The Biologist a taster of the latest leg of her ...

In our very first episode of the Biosphere Podcast, we dive into the world of animal behaviour and talk to Professor Sir Ian Boyd, RSB's President about his research and his science policy experience ...

Lord Sainsbury of Turville read history and psychology at King's College, Cambridge, and then joined J Sainsbury plc in 1963. He received an MBA from the Columbia Graduate School of Business in New ...

One of the joys of a good botanic garden is that its plants are labelled with their generic and specific names. For such times, having a Mabberley's in hand is essential and without equal. This fourth ...

It is often asked whether humans would be better placed to fend off attack from one horse-sized duck or one hundred duck-sized horses. Nature’s Giants does not provide an answer to this particular ...

This careers resource was jointly developed by the Biochemical Society, British Ecological Society, British Pharmacological Society, Microbiology Society, Society for Experimental Biology, Royal ...